Power Outage Montogomery County

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Anonymous wrote:McPs closed tomorrow!!!

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/

Why???????

Lots of schools won’t have electricity tomorrow. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Why not just close the schools that don’t have power and the rest of us can go to school? Ridiculous. The county is huge. Plenty of areas are not impacted by this.

Yes, but you’re not thinking about the teachers that won’t be able to blow dry their hair tomorrow.

So let me get this straight-public schools with power are closed while private schools with power remain open. Makes perfect sense.

Public schools that have to decide for a whole system where some schools, students, teachers, and staff have power and some do not are a lot more difficult to handle than one school, which has not lost power, where the status of teachers and staff can be ascertained relatively quickly.
Yes, it does make perfect sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I found the pilot on twitter. He’s a COVID minimizing republicans who works as a solo practitioner (which is a pretty good indicator for having a difficult or arrogant personality).

Obviously I still hope they are safe though.

Ok, and?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS wouldn’t close all the schools in the county due to a handful of schools without power, right?

Way more than a handful…

MCPS just sent out a communication that notes 44 schools without power, plus 6 central office facilities. Sounds to me like they are planning for a closure.

Lawyer pilot should be fined to cover all these costs.

For a few hours on a Sunday night? Dramatic much?

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says they've been rescued and are now out of the plane.

I bet they’re relived that’s a long time to hold your pee!

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-small-plane-crash-2-rescued-plane-tangled-power-lines-power-nearly-restored

Two people were rescued early Monday morning from a plane that was left dangling 100 feet in the air from power lines after it crashed in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Sunday night.

Rescue workers pulled the pilot and passenger of the small plane out of the wreckage after they were trapped for several hours after the crash.

Crews had to deenergize the electric tower and ground it to ensure no remaining energy was running through the structure. Officials said the plane then had to be secured to the tower, so it wouldn't fall during the rescue.

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Pepco reported about 85,000 customers were without power because of the plane crash.

As of early Monday morning, all but 911 Pepco customers had their power restored.

Montgomery County Public Schools tweeted that schools would be closed Monday due to the power outage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McPs closed tomorrow!!!

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/

Why???????

Time to go back to page 1 and re-read. Something about 120,000 people without power…school depot and food affected and 44 schools with no power. But besides that…

But..but… the power’s on at THEIR personal house and the whole world should be catered to them!

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Anonymous wrote:McPs closed tomorrow!!!

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/

Why???????

Lots of schools won’t have electricity tomorrow. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Why not just close the schools that don’t have power and the rest of us can go to school? Ridiculous. The county is huge. Plenty of areas are not impacted by this.

That’s not how it works. The district makes closing decisions as a district.

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Anonymous wrote:If teachers and bus drivers live in that area, it will affect other schools.

Huh? Why? You don’t think it’s going to be possible to drive out of that area?

Without power, I could not shower, blow dry my hair and get ready for work. So, no - I am not going in.

I honestly can’t tell if this poster is serious. You can’t go to work if you can’t blow dry your hair? Where I grew up (Midwest) this would clearly be a joke, but people in the DMV are… special.

Plus, water isn’t off— power is.

Like hell I’m taking a cold shower to go to work, so if my house has an electric water heater and power is out-I’m out.
Not to mention that when I taught HS I showered at 5 am and taking a shower in the pitch dark wouldn’t be on my to do list either.

lol. What a rough life you must have. For instance, your apparent inability to afford flashlights.

LOL. What a rough life you have, being responsible for your own kids tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says they've been rescued and are now out of the plane.

I bet they’re relived that’s a long time to hold your pee!

I was thinking the same.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says they've been rescued and are now out of the plane.

I bet they’re relived that’s a long time to hold your pee!

I was thinking the same.

Me too!

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Anonymous wrote:King Farm in Rockville is out.

This is a huge outage. Does anyone know what happened?

Answering myself - hear a small plane hit power lines at the airpark

I understand he was looking for a power charging station and found one.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says they've been rescued and are now out of the plane.

I bet they’re relived that’s a long time to hold your pee!

I was thinking the same.

Me too!

Ya’ll are kidding, right? They were rescued and taken to the hospital with orthopedic injuries and hypothermia. I doubt they were holding their pee.

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Why did they close schools since power was restored?

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they close schools since power was restored?

Because they need to assess the bus centralized system, water, heat and food functionality. Since power came back in the wee hours, there was no staff to flush any brown water, check that the heat coms back on correctly, that the computers still know which bus to send where, and which foods need to be thrown out.

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Anonymous wrote:That outage map in this weather (not terrible) almost makes it look like someone hacked the power company. No news yet.

Russians. Darn it!